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Nigel Evans, the former Deputy Speaker, has dismissed allegations of sexual assault against him as “ridiculous” and said he is being depicted as “a cross between Alan Clark, Benny Hill and Oscar Wilde”.

The MP for Ribble Valley, under cross-examination at Preston Crown Court, said one of the allegations against him went “from the bizarre to the bunkum”.

Responding to claims that he forced his hand into the waistbands of the trousers of two young men, he evoked the reputations of the famously promiscuous Tory MP, the “slap and tickle” comedian and the celebrated gay wit.